Sophie’s Choice (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: William Styron
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1947 and World War II
- Setting: Brooklyn, New York
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Epic
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Suicide, Authors or writers, New York City, 1940’s, World War II, Guilt, Mental illness, Nazism or Nazis, Holocaust, Jewish, Concentration camps
- Locales: Virginia, Brooklyn, NY, Washington, D.C., Warsaw, Poland, Auschwitz-Berkenau, Cracow, Poland
Characters Discussed
Stingo (STIHN-goh), a twenty- two-year-old transplanted Southerner and would-be novelist living in New York City, where he struggles to find himself and write. He is oversensitive, intellectual, and astute. The novel is a record of Stingo’s pursuits in the big city, which primarily include his employment at the McGraw-Hill publishing company, his attempts to write, and his relationship with Sophie Zawistowska and Nathan Landau. Stingo, who in many ways resembles the author, becomes more and more involved with these two characters to the extent that he...
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